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In the course of Is a River Alive?, Robert Macfarlane argues compellingly the case for regarding rivers – and by implication, all other elements of the natural world – as living beings ...

Having taken up semi-retirement — I stopped writing a weekly book column for The Washington Post on Jan. 19 — I first thought I might read some books to ... long essays on Robert Louis ...

The It’s Me, Tinx podcast host, 34, shared with Page Six her favorite books and her go-to genre when choosing a new read at the bookstore. “I’ve always loved to read,” she told the outlet.

Tasha Robinson is Polygon’s entertainment editor. She’s covered film, TV, books, and more for 20 years, including at The A.V. Club, The Dissolve, and The Verge. So when I got to talk to ...

From the second line of Robert Macfarlane’s new ode to nature, I was caught in the current, rushed along the rapids of his exploration into a question with fundamental consequences: Is this ...

(SrA. Zachary Foster/U.S. Air Force) The Pentagon has ordered all military leaders and commands to pull and review all of their library books that address diversity, anti-racism or gender issues ...

The work is discussed in a new book of writings on Johns by the former curator at the Museum of Modern Art and of the Venice Biennale in 2007, Robert Storr. We speak to Storr about the work.

After several popular books of poetry and one novel, Ocean Vuong’s new book is “The Emperor of Gladness.” Credit...Gioncarlo Valentine Fiction A college dropout becomes caretaker to a ...

Robert Francis Prevost, who has recently been named the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, taking the name Leo XIV. At 69, he made history as the first American to occupy the throne of St. Peter.

Bags of books placed outside a building at the Yale-NUS College campus, and the bags seen on a truck, on May 20, 2025. SINGAPORE: The National University Singapore (NUS) on Wednesday (May 21 ...

Nata, the bookstore owner, clears up some mysteries, noting that as her books age their “charm” gets stronger: “You know how books have the power to attract people and even influence them?